Are United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) stocks a prudent buy?

United Natural Foods Inc. [UNFI] stock is trading at $9.04, up 1.23%. In order to assess the stock’s recent performance, you can check whether its short-term value is rising or falling. The UNFI shares have gain 2.49% over the last week, with a monthly amount drifted -17.52%, and not seem to be holding up well over a long-time horizon.

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From an analyst’s perspective:

United Natural Foods Inc. [NYSE: UNFI] stock has seen the most recent analyst activity on January 04, 2024, when Wells Fargo downgraded its rating to a Underweight but kept the price target unchanged to $15 for it. Previously, UBS downgraded its rating to Neutral on March 13, 2023, and dropped its price target to $32. On March 10, 2023, downgrade downgraded it’s rating to Neutral. CL King downgraded its rating to a Neutral. ROTH MKM downgraded its rating to a Neutral and reduced its price target to $34 on March 08, 2023. In a note dated March 17, 2022, Wells Fargo upgraded an Equal Weight rating on this stock and boosted its target price from $35 to $38.

United Natural Foods Inc. [UNFI] stock has fluctuated between $8.58 and $28.37 over the past year. Currently, Wall Street analysts expect the stock to reach $43.14 within the next 12 months. United Natural Foods Inc. [NYSE: UNFI] shares were valued at $9.04 at the most recent close of the market. An investor can expect a potential return of 377.21% based on the average UNFI price forecast.

Analyzing the UNFI fundamentals

United Natural Foods Inc. [NYSE:UNFI] reported sales of 30.25B for the trailing twelve months, which represents a drop of -0.52%. Gross Profit Margin for this corporation currently stands at 0.13% with Operating Profit Margin at -0.0%, Pretax Profit Margin comes in at -0.01%, and Net Profit Margin reading is -0.0%. To continue investigating profitability, this company’s Return on Assets is posted at -0.01, Equity is -0.07 and Total Capital is -0.0. An extended analysis of the company’s primary financial structure reveals a debt-to-equity ratio of1.4.

Before buying any particular stock, readers tend to pay close attention to the indicators that support and create resistance. The company’s stock is currently sitting at 8.90 points at the first support level, and at 8.76 for the second support level. However, for the 1st resistance point, the stock is sitting at 9.18, and for the 2nd resistance point, it is at 9.32.

United Natural Foods Inc. [UNFI] reported earnings per share of $0.07 for its fiscal quarter that ended on 1/31/2024. Based on the Wall Street analysts’ estimates, the company was expected to report earnings of -$0.01/share, meaning a difference of $0.08 and a surprise factor of 800.00%. By comparison, the stated earnings for the previous quarter ended on 10/31/2023 were -$0.04 per share as compared to estimates of -$0.31 per share, a difference of $0.27 representing a surprise of 87.10%.

Ratios To Look Out For

For context, United Natural Foods Inc.’s Current Ratio is 1.53. In addition, the Quick Ratio stands at 0.54 and the Cash Ratio stands at 0.01. Considering the valuation of this stock, the price to sales ratio is 0.02, the price to book ratio is 0.32.

Transactions by insiders

Recent insider trading involved Esper Richard Eric, Chief Accounting Officer, that happened on Apr 01 ’24 when 4375.0 shares were sold. CFO, Howard John W completed a deal on Mar 11 ’24 to buy 6275.0 shares. Meanwhile, Director Bates Ann Torre sold 16061.0 shares on Oct 11 ’23.

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